Summer of Content interns
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Anyone is eligible to be a Summer of Content intern. To apply:
- Create an applicant profile in the section below. Include a way to contact you, preferably by email. You can edit the wiki manually by clicking the "edit" tab at the top and adding your profile to the bottom, or by clicking the "Apply as an intern" button here. Also join the mailing list to get updates and announcements.
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- Check out the projects on the projects page; add your ideas, comment on existing ones, and add your names to the projects you're interested in.
- Check out the mentors on the mentors page, and contact the ones you're interested in working with; talk with them about projects you're interested in working on.
- Celebrate (or wait nervously, depending on your disposition). You may continue to edit your profile here or the projects you are interested in until 11:59pm EST (GMT-5) on August 6, 2007. At that time, projects, mentors, and interns will be selected and matched up; you will be notified of your final status before August 10, 2007.
What do interns do?
- Interns...
- Work on an open content project that you propose and design yourself. You will be making something so share with the world - and a great thing to put in your portfolio.
- Get a mentor to get advice from and ask questions of. He or she will be your guide through the summer, introduce you to the open content community, and help you with your project.
- Get paid! You get a $500 stipend (paid in 3 installments through the summer - at the start, midpoint, and end - depending on progress reports by your mentors).
- Get a cool SoCon t-shirt and other neat prizes, and...
- Get to show off your work at the end at local and virtual Jams held throughout the world.
The total time commitment is approximately 35 hours per week - you decide when and where to work, and what to work on - and everything can be done remotely via email.
Intern Applicants
Intern name
Email: address (at) domain (dot) com
Background: Write your profile here. Keep it short; 4-6 sentences is a good length. Some ideas: location, background and experience, kinds of projects you are interested in working on, projects you have worked on before, specific projects you are interested in for the Summer of Content. Link to external pages/sites as needed.
Brendan Ballou
Email: bcb2114 (at) columbia (dot) edu
Background: First off, Hi Coogan and Karen! My name is Brendan Ballou, I am an undergraduate at Columbia (though I'm taking the year to study abroad), studying philosophy and a little computer science. There I also run the school's Free Culture chapter. Last year we put public domain versions of Columbia's Core Curriculum texts on 100 flash drives and gave them out for free to students. The project introduced the idea of the public domain to a lot of kids and also hopefully saved them a fair amount of money. Additionally we put together the Columbia University Local Area Tor (CULATOR) which anonymized student web activity on the Columbia intranet. we're now expanding CULATOR to include all schools on the Internet2 network.
I am interested in building a Journalism Jam at Columbia this fall, and with any luck Lauren Klein will be my mentor. I think this project will be a lot of fun, get students involved in the OLPC movement, and hopefully produce some great content
Coogan Brennan
Email: Coogan(dot)Brennan(at)Columbia(dot)edu
Background: I'm a researcher currently at Brown University working on public health and carbon sequestration. I am developing an organization known as The Manhattan Project to develop proper mediums to interpret the massive amounts of decentralized information, specifically in regards to news.
I would really like to talk with other people about this project, get a feeling for where it could go and what we will need to get it there. This means gathering programmers, graphic designers and other high-falutin thinkers to join in on the discussion concerning a proper web browser for the 21st century.
In SoCon 2007, I'd like to develop Junk Monkey, a dynamic web plug-in complimented by wikis and user-generated content. There's a more detailed explanation here along with a movie here (there's a lag in the video, you need to fast-forward at 4:00 to 5:00).
You can see the formal proposal for The Manhattan Project at my blog.
Nikki Lee
Email: firstname.lastname@students.olin.edu
Background: Undergraduate engineering student from California, USA currently building the OLPC art community. More detailed bio on my user page on the wiki. Interested in streamlining the volunteering process for OLPC, as in the OLPC volunteers portal project.
Ronny Yabar Aizcorbe
Ronny Yabar Email: ronny(at)mentelibre(dot)org
Background: I obtained a degree as a Technician in Computer Science at the Instituto del Sur,where I dedicated 6 months to the journalism team: writing educational articles and being responsible for the monthly newsletter. Nowadays, I study Computer Science Engineering at San Pablo Catholic University in Arequipa - Peru and work as a freelance web developer.
I am also the co-founder of the MenteLibre community, a group of free knowledge researchers.
I am really interested in participating on the OLPC project since the first time I read about it.In the SoC 2007, I'd like to work in the OLPC volunteers portal creating well-done portals and producing usefull and easily accesible content-information for teachers, students,experts and public in general. One of my commitments is to show the whole world how OLPC can reduce the Digital Divide and be a great way to improve child's education.
You can see more details about me at my blog.
Karen Rustad
Email: karen.rustad (at) gmail.com
Who am I: I'm a senior at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. I am the president of the local Free Culture chapter (Free Culture 5C) as well as a member of the FreeCulture.org board of directors. Here's my website and my blog. Right now I am employed as a web/IT intern at the Genocide Intervention Network and this fall will serve as the webmaster for the Scripps Store. I enjoy politics, meteorology, and indie rock.
Interested in: The OLPC webcomic project
Omar Cueva Arenas
Email: ocueva(at)gmail(dot)com
Background: I am a distinguished graduate in industrial engineering. I have experience in consulting, management, marketing and logistics. As a multi-lingual and multi-cultural businessman, I have learned to think fast and act faster in pursuit of my goals. I have top international test scores.
I am a student of INCAE, Costa Rica, the top buesiness School of latin America. I am also a columnist and passionate about free knowledge community. I am sure I can be a helpful intern in OLPC due to my background in business, languages and social issues.
I'd like to be part of the classrooms for free culture project, sharing my knowledge,experiences and opinions,creating debates and organitizing meetings in which students, teachers and researchers can generate variety of knowledge and encourage them be aware of the importance of the free culture for the development nations.
You can see more about me at my blog.
Rowen Remis R. Iral
Email: wenmi01 (at) spymac ( period ) com
Languages spoken: List the languages you can mentor projects in here. Tagalog/Filipino English Nihongo
Background: Fundametal IT Engineer I'll be helping in development and promotion of OLPC project. I'm also one of the major movers of the PhilNITS Society who wants to do changes by use of IT.
I also like to work with my team and learn with them, I push project and time and put things in order for smooth execution and wants to achieve goals that was set.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Rowen_Remis_R._Iral
Timothy Paul B. Martinez
Email: timhack007(at)gmail(dot) com
Background: I'm Malaya GNU+Linux User Group Leader. I'm currently organizing this GLUG. I'm a python programmer and 3rd year IT student(ACSAT Baliuag,Bulacan). I'm a Dedicated Free software advocate. I'm also promoting OLPC in our school and community. I'm educator in heart and spirit, "I'm helping to invent the future for our future sons and daugthers."
I'm also doing a personal project named Mental++ (Mental Math Trainer System) created in python and scheme that could be use in OLPC.
Arwincito J. Dela Cruz
Email: arwin0503(at) yahoo(dot) com
Background: Write your profile here. Keep it short; 4-6 sentences is a good length. Some ideas: location, background and experience, kinds of projects you are interested in working on, projects you have worked on before, specific projects you are interested in for the Summer of Content. Link to external pages/sites as needed.
Geeta Dayal
Email: gdayal (at) alum (dot) mit (dot) edu
Background: I'm a journalist. I have an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School, and experience teaching and developing curricula for journalism and media courses at Fordham University and SUNY. My work has appeared in various papers and magazines, including the New York Times, The Village Voice, Wired, etc. I'm interested in working on an introductory journalism curriculum tailored for OLPC, with an emphasis on basic reporting skills, ethics, and journalism history. I'm currently based in Montreal, where I'm doing my PhD in communication studies at McGill.
Zdenek Broz
Email: dicts (at) centrum (dot) cz
Background: I live in Czech Republic. I have a bachelors degree in computer science and a masters degree in business and management. Currently I am a PhD student on the Brno University of Technology. I focus primarily on the efficiency of language education. I am working on a project with hundreds of dictionaries for more than 60 world languages at Dicts.info. I am skilled in Java, C#, PHP, HTML and XML. I have prepared about a dozen bundles for XO they are listed on the Library_grid (all bundles with Preview link were made by me).